Best selling science fiction author Nathan Van Coops joins the show to talk about time travel, switching genres, and launching his own streaming podcast! To learn more about Nathan check out his site: https://www.nathanvancoops.com/

Board game designer and publisher Jason Tagmire joins the show! Jason recently quit his job to become a full time publisher! To learn more about Jason or to pick up some of his wallet games, visit his site at: https://buttonshygames.com/

Author and podcaster, Kevin Tumlinson returns to the show! He shares an update on how his writing process has evolved and talks about his new shinny gig of being a rep for Draft2Digital! If you want to learn more about Kevin, visit him at his site: https://www.kevintumlinson.com/

Syndicated cartoonist and author Brian Anderson joins the show to talk about making comics, novels, and all-things-puppy-related! To learn more about Brian you can visit his site at: http://theconjurers.com/

Indy advocate, historical author, and all around awesome guy... David Gaughran joins the show to talk about his love of writing, helping out authors, and how to find your superfans. To learn more about David you can visit his site at: https://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/

Jami Albright returns to talk about how after launching her second solo novel she was able to quit her day job and become a full-time author! To learn more about Jami you can visit her site at: https://www.jamialbright.com/

Hit fantasy author Garrett Robinson stops back in for a visit to update on how his career has skyrocketed since he last joined the show. To learn more about Garrett, check out his site: http://garrettbrobinson.com/

Indy author and former guest Jamie Davis returns to the show to talk about how he managed to publish eight books in only five months! To learn more about Jamie visit his site at: http://jamiedavisbooks.com/

Former director of Kobo Writing Life, Mark Leslie Lefebvre joins the show to talk about horror, publishing, and transitioning to a full time author! To learn more about Mark, or to check out his podcast, visit his site: http://www.markleslie.ca/

Best selling author Craig Martelle joins the show to discuss how through hard work he managed to kick off his writing career and make it his full time business in less than two years! To learn more about Craig, visit his site at: http://www.craigmartelle.com/

Best Selling Author T.S. Paul joins to show to talk about how of the course of eighteen or so months he went from being unpublished to having 31 books published! To learn more about T.S. Paul visit his site: https://tspaul.blogspot.com/

Game designer Rob Daviau joins the show to talk about food, how he created the legacy genre of board games, and Pandemic Legacy: Season 2! To learn more about Rob visit his site at: http://www.robdaviau.com/

Erika & Rachel of "Girls Guts Glory" join the show to talk about how their love for D&D evolved into a hit web series that was recently picked up by Wizards of the Coast! To learn more about GGG check out their site at: https://www.girlsgutsgloryrpg.com/

Best selling fantasy author Anthony Ryan joins to the show to talk about world building, being a hybrid author, and his new hit series The Draconis Memoria. To learn more about Anthony, check out his site: https://anthonyryan.net/

This week data guru Brian D. Meeks joins the show to talk about the art of analyzing data, and more specifically the secrets to running Amazon Ads! To learn more about Brian make sure you check out his site: http://extremelyaverage.com/

Hide your moonpies because Tony & Marty from Rolling Dice and Taking Names join the show to talk about their epic bromance and how it brought them into the gaming world. To learn more about RDTN hit up their website at: http://www.rolldicetakenames.com/

This week YA and romance author Monica Leonelle joins the show to talk about writing, being an entrepreneur, teaching, and how writers can accelerate their career! To learn more about Monica, visit her site at: http://monicaleonelle.com/

This week cartoonist, author, and writer Brian Anderson joins the show to talk about comics, screenplays, creating a YA series, and just about everything in between. To learn more about Brian visit his site at: http://theconjurers.com/

This week Nicole, Adrienne, and Erin join the show to talk about their podcast Greatway Games, a show about board game culture and the community that forms around it! To listen to their awesome show, find them on iTunes or at this direct like: http://greatwaygames.libsyn.com/

This week, best selling fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss joins to the show to talk about writing, his charity work, Tak, and just about everything in between. To learn more about Patrick visit his website: http://www.patrickrothfuss.com/

This week Scott chats with NYT Bestselling author Victoria Schwab. With over a dozen books published over the course of only five years, Schwab offers an insiders look into how she balances pen names, builds her worlds, and gets her books written. To learn more about Victoria visit her site at: https://veschwab.wordpress.com/

This week Scott talks with breakout romance author Jami Albright. Jami launched her first solo book and a month later she has over 170 reviews and is still at the top of the Amazon charts! To learn more about Jami visit her site at: https://www.jamialbright.com/

Hit fantasy author, Joseph R. Lallo joins the show to talk about world building, his writing process, and how podcasting has impacted his career. To learn more about Joseph visit his site: http://www.bookofdeacon.com/

This week, Scott Morris, the president of Passport Games, joins the show to talk about his life in the tech world, getting into gaming, and what exactly a president of a game publishing company does. To learn more about Passport Games visit their site: http://passportgamestudios.com/

Cozy mystery author and educator Sarah Rosset joins the show to talk about her hybrid career of being both a self published author and having a traditional contract with a publishers. To learn more about Sarah visit her site: http://www.sararosett.com/

This week, hit fantasy author Jeff Wheeler joins the show to talk about writing, being published by an Amazon imprint, world building, and just about everything in between. To learn more about Jeff visit his site: http://www.jeff-wheeler.com/

Best selling and award winning audiobook narrator Kate Rudd joins the show to talk about voice acting, what it's like having more than 250 titles in her backlist, and what it was like to read the hit novel "Fault in our Stars!" To learn more about Kate visit her site: http://www.katerudd.com/

This week Jamie Davis, RN, NRP, B.A., A.S., host of the Nursing Show, joins the Creators Cast to talk about podcasting, writing, and everything in between. To learn more about Jamie make sure you checkout his main podcast at www.NursingShow.com!

This week I chat with Sam Dillard. Sam is a music composer who has kickstarted several licensed albums and does an assortment of freelance work. To learn more about Sam hit up his website: http://samostudios.tumblr.com/

Best selling author Honoree Corder joins the show. With more then twenty books under her belt and her her hit book "You Must Write A Book" still topping the charts MONTHS after release, Honoree shares how she got started and transitioned out of being a business coach to being a full time writer. To learn more about Honoree visit http://honoreecorder.com/

Father and sun duo Geoff and Bryan Engelstein join the show to talk about the nitty gritty awesome nerdiness of board game designing. To learn more about Geoff check out his own podcast Ludology (http://www.ludology.libsyn.com/)where he analyzes board game mechanisms.

Voice actor extraordinaire Eric Michael Summer joins for chats, hijinks and a Flip the Table inspired game (Don't worry Scott got Moderator Chris' blessing). Sit back and relax and we skip doing a clip-show and celebrate episode 100 by having some fun!

Hit indy author and Amazon rank climber Michael Anderlee joins the show to talk about how in under a year he managed to hit his goals by writing fast and sticking to a schedule. To learn more about Michael visit https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Anderle/e/B017J2WANQ/

Board game publisher, designer, and Kickstarter guru Jamey Stegmaier joins the show to talk about how he formed Stonemaier games and built it up to what we all know it to be. To learn more about Jamey you can learn more at http://stonemaiergames.com/

New Hampshire residents and board game fans, Kimberly Bullock, Kevin Craine, and Michael Taylor join the show to talk about how they founded the Granite Games Summit, a local convention held twice a year in New Hampshire. To learn more about G2S, visit http://www.granitegamesummit.com/

Ivan Karmanov joins the show to talk about Tabletopia, a board game simulator that has really kicked off in the past year, being embraced by both gamers and publishers. To learn more about Tabletopia check them out https://tabletopia.com/

Today's Chat Podcaster and Party Clown extraordinaire, Flip Florey joins the show to talk about the other side of gaming as well as what it's like to create a clown persona and develop an act. To learn more about Flip head over to Flip the Table's Website: http://tableflipsyou.blogspot.com/

Today's Chat Author and editor Clark Chamberlain stops by to talk about how he got into editing and what exactly an editor does. To learn more about Clark head over to his website: http://www.thebookeditorshow.com/

Today's Chat Board Game designer Ben Cichoski joins the show to talk about his process and how he broke into the industry. Ben is best known for designing a slew of deck builders, including the Penny Arcade deck builder as well as working on a lot of IP's like the new Legendary Firefly game. To learn more about Ben visit his site at: http://www.superawesomegames.net/

Today's Chat Author and podcaster Kevin Tumlinson, aka The Wordslinger, joins the show to talk about how he turned writing into a full time career. To learn more about Kevin visit his site at: http://kevintumlinson.com/

Today's Chat Board game publisher and producer Patrick Nickel joins the show to talk about gaming and board game production. To learn more about Patrick and Crash of Games visit his site at: https://crashofgames.com/

Today's ChatAuthor James Nelson specializes in nautical based fiction and after years of being published by the big NYC publishers he has broken out and gone indie with his new series, "The Norsemen Saga." To learn more about James head to: http://www.jameslnelson.com/

Today's ChatDavid J. Peterson is a conlanger, a person who creates languages, and has worked on shows like Game of Thrones, The One Hundred, and tons more! He's become Hollywood's go-to guy for new languages and has even written a book on the subject called "The Art of Language Creation." To learn more about David head to: http://www.artoflanguageinvention.com/

NEWSI'm looking for some non-writing, non-cartoonist, non-game-designer guest. If you know someone who does something unique and that they might be willing to be on the show then email (scottking@scottking.info) me and let me know!

Today's ChatAuthor Garrett Robinson is here to talk about his epic Nightblade Series. Nightblade is the first of multiple series set in the same world that Garrett eventually plans to have overlap and intertwine. He's also a freelance editor and one of the newest writers to be signed by Sterling & Stone. To learn more about Garrett head to: http://garrettbrobinson.com/

Pick three things you enjoy that were created by someone (songs, podcast, game, movie, app, recipe, etc.)

Let the creator know how much you enjoy that thing (rate it on Spotify, write a review on iTunes, become a fan on BoardGameGeek.com, write a YouTube comment, rate it in the app store, tweet to the creator #CreatorAppreciationDay , become a facebook fan, write a review for Amazon, comment on their kickstarter campaign, etc.)

Share with your friends either in person (schedule a Show and Tell party where you take turns sharing your favorite music, or playing your favorite game) or on social media.

Discover new creators that your friends recommend.

Rules (ok, guidelines):

This is not about money. It’s great to financially support your favorite creators via crowdfunding, patreon, buying products, etc. But this is about expressing appreciation.

Focus on living creators. Let’s appreciate people while they are around to enjoy it.

Today's ChatGrant Rodiek is back to talk about his game design process. To learn more about Grant head over to: http://hyperbolegames.com/

News:A few weeks back, I asked you all to write in and share what you are working on. Today I finally read a good chunk of those emails!

Today’s Chat:Grant Rodiek is a producer for EA Games and has spent nearly the past ten years making Sims Games. If that wasn't enough he's also a multi-time published game designer and just this past year he started his own board game publishing company. To learn more about Grant head over to: http://hyperbolegames.com/

News:Dan Well's newest book "Bluescreen" is out! You can pick up on Amazon or wherever/however you read/listen to books!

Today’s Chat:New York Times Best Selling Author and Hugo Award Winning Educator Dan Wells is back! This time he walks us through his writing process and shares some details on his exciting new cyberpunk series. To learn more about Dan head over to: http://thedanwells.com/

Today’s Chat:New York Times Best Selling Author and Hugo Award Winning Educator Dan Wells is here to talk about how he first got published and what it was like creating both the John Cleaver series and The Partial Sequence. To learn more about Dan head over to: http://thedanwells.com/

News:Lisa and I got the Doctor Who Lego set and LOVE IT. If you like Legos or Doctor Who then it's worth checking out!

Today’s Chat:Scott Nicholson is back to talk about escape rooms, lesson planning, and the ins and outs of running a new university program. To learn more about Scott head over to: http://scottnicholson.com/

Today’s Chat:Scott Nicholson is a game designers, college professor, and the director of the Brantford Game Network game lab at the Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford, Ontario. To learn more about Scott head over to: http://scottnicholson.com/

In this side-episode, Scott shares what his writing plans are for 2016! He's got his fingers crossed that he can get eight books written and is hoping that by sharing the details with you he'll feel so accountable that he will get them done.

How do you plan ahead your projects and how do you schedule your time? Tweet @scottking or send an email to scottking@scottking.info to share how you get your work done or any other time related tips.

Today's Chat:Lindsay Buroker is a full time author. Her two best known series are Emperors Edge and Dragon Blood though she’s got a ton of others. She's also one of the co-hosts of the Sci-Fi Fantasy Marketing Podcast!

Today's Chat:Lindsay Buroker is a full time author. Her two best known series are Emperors Edge and Dragon Blood though she’s got a ton of others. She's also one of the co-hosts of the Sci-Fi Fantasy Marketing Podcast!

News:Lisa and I had a blast at BGG.Con and I give an overview of what the convention is like.

Today's Chat:Bryan Cohen is the creator of the hit YA series “Ted Saves the World." He also does a podcast called The Sell More Books Show, he has dozens of books focusing on creative writing, and just recently he launched a description writing service called “selling for authors."

News:I'm back and I share what it was like to have a booth at BGG.con!

Today's Chat:Bryan Cohen is the creator of the hit YA series “Ted Saves the World." He also does a podcast called The Sell More Books Show, he has dozens of books focusing on creative writing, and just recently he launched a description writing service called “selling for authors."

News:My newest book, "Genie vs. Djinn" is out! You can pick it up on Amazon, Kobo, iTunes, and Nook! This is most likely the final book in my Zimmah Chronicles series so now is a great time to pick up the trilogy and discover a world with genies, djinns, and world warping magic.

News:Matt Leacock's newest game, Pandemic Legacy is epic and a must buy for any gamer. We aren't even halfway through the season and have been floored by it. If you haven't already, make sure you pick-up a copy.

Today's Chat:Matt Leacock is a board game designer known for Pandemic, Roll through the Ages, Pandemic: The Cure, and Thunderbirds. He's here to talk about how he broke into the gaming industry and what it was like to co-design Pandemic Legacy with designer Rob Daviau.

News:I'll be attending BGG.Con on November 18th through 22nd in Dallas. If you are at the convention make sure you stop by my booth on Wednesday the 18th! I'd love to meet some of you listeners in person.

News:If you know of anything cool to see in Fredericksburg, TX or anywhere in the Texas Hill Country, hit me up on twitter (@scottking) and let me know!

Today's Chat:Ryan Estrada is a world traveler and comic book creator. His work has appeared in the award winning Flight anthology, he's run hit Kickstarters, and he has never shied away from his passion for creating and story telling.

Today's Chat:Sean Platt is one of the three head honchos at Sterline and Stone, an indie publishing studio. He has written a bunch of books on his own and is writting partners with both Dave Wright and Johnny Truant. In the past year his books have topped the charts at all the major retailers and he is one of the co-host of the very popular "Self Publishing Podcast."

The contest ends on October 16th, 2015 at 8pm so make sure you visit before then!

Today's Chat:Chris is an iOS app developer but in the past year he has been making the transition into becoming a full time author. His debut book “No Such Things as Werewolves” released just about a year ago and in that time he’s written several sequels, branched into non-fiction, and has an entirely new scifi series on the way.

To learn more about Chris visit him at his site: http://chrisfoxwrites.com/

Today's Chat:This week I sit down with science fiction author Tobias Buckell. Tobias is a New York Times Bestselling author and has been nominated for a both a Hugo and a Nebula. Dozens of his short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies. To check out some of his work head over to his website at: http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/

News:Got a moment of zen in your creation process where you don't stress and are at peace with what you've created? I want to know! Email me: scottking@scottking.info

Today's Chat:Isaac Vega the Lead Game Designer and Art Director for Plaid Hat Games is BACK. This time we are talking all things ASHES: RISE OF THE PHOENIXBORN! Ashes is one of my favorite games to be released this past summer and in this episode Isaac shares the secrets behind his design process as well as what inspired him to design the game.

Today's Chat:This week I sit down with Isaac Vega. Isaac is the Lead Game Designer and Art Director for Plaid Hat Games. He is best known for being one of the designers of Dead of Winner, for designing Bioshock Infinite: Seige of Columbia and for designing this summer's hit card game, Ashes: Rise of the Phoenix.

Chris Michaud from the Flip the Table podcast is back! Not only does he walk through how he and the other cast members record each show, but he also particpates in the first ever solo version of WRONG SCATTERGORIES! Don't miss this episode!

Chris Michaud from the Flip the Table podcast joins us to share the deepest darkest secrets about the the otherside of gaming. In this episode, Chris talks about how the podcast was founded and why he and the other cast members decided to focus on retro games.

Suzanne is a YouTuber for the Dice Tower network. She best known for being the go-to person for mobile board games and contributes segments for Board Game Breakfast and Board Game Blender. She also created and manages the very popular GenCan't an online virtual board game convention.

This week I chat with board game designer and publisher Ignacy Trzewiczek. Ignacy is the founder of Portal Games, a Poland based company that used to specialize in RPG's but now focuses soley on board games. He is best known for designing Imperial Settlers and Neuroshima Hex but is also behind such awesome games as The Witcher Adventer Game and Robinson Crusoe.

Ajna Adams:Ajna Adams the social media manager for Kelby One and this week she is back! She's got great advice on how she handles Kelby One's accounts as well as tips for how you can better manage your social media and brand.

Ajna Adams:This week I talk with Ajna Adams. Ajna is the social media manager for Kelby One a large company that deal with photography eductation. Kelby One produces weekly web shows, two large annual conventions, online classes, and live seminars. As the social media manager Anja is on the front lines making tweets, gaining likes, and keeping an eye out for what's hot and what's not in social media.

Sandra Tayler:Sandra Tayler is back! This time around she is chating about her process in working with an artist on her picture books as well as discusing the ins and outs of layout books and graphic novels while dealing with printing, shipping, and distribution.

Sandra Tayler:This week I chat with Sandra Tayler. Sandra has written two children's picture books, published two essay books, and has several middle grade novels in the works. In addition she runs the behind the scenes buisness side of the very popular webcomic Schlock Mercenary.

This week I sit down with New York Times and USA Today best selling author Joanna Penn. Best known for her supernatural thriller novels, Joanna has also made a big splash on the indie scene and has been a strong proponent of self publishing. Her podcast, The Creative Penn, is a top rated show and she's published multiple books aimed at helping writers learn the marketing and business side of publishing.

Kazu Kibuishi is back to discuss his comic making process. From conception to publication, we focus in on how he has been able to produce a new Amulet graphic novel for the past seven years, which is no easy feet.

This week I sit down with comic creator Kazu Kibuishi. Kazu is best known for his hit graphic novel series Amulet, but in comic circles his other books Copper, Flight, and Daisy Kutter are just as revered.